Management and Shopkeeping Novels With a System, No Post-Apocalyptic Stories (Please Don't Recommend... 经营类、开店类+系统的小说，不要末世文（不要推

1. 1 架 Alternate Ancient China: Building a Fortune in Jiangnan 架空古代：江南人家经营致富日常 Rain on Riverside Flowers汀花雨Ancient Romance2.4M WordsOngoing [Ancient-Style Business and Wealth-Building] + [A Jiangnan Family] + [Everyday Family Life] + [Lighthearted, Sweet, and Satisfying] A lighthearted, stress-relieving story about the everyday business and family life of a small household in peaceful Jiangnan, filled with warmth, joy, kindness, and ordinary domestic moments. It tells the story of common people in ancient times. The main characters are not princes or ministers, nor are they members of noble or aristocratic families. From the very st 73kReads9.3Score7.4kShelves

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   [Heart] Shop Management System [Heart] Female-oriented [Bookshelf Added] Small bridges, flowing water, and awning boats; teahouses and food stalls in the Jiangnan water towns. [Bookshelf Added] Western Han Dynasty Dunhuang snack shops; the top-ranked must-visit food stalls for caravans on the Silk Road. [Bookshelf Added] Lich-themed otherworldly food shops and criminal investigation. [Bookshelf Added] Fairytale world taverns; different fairytale character endings.

2. 2 我 My Whole Family Cooks in a Giant Pot and Goes Viral in the Western Han 我全家炒大锅饭，爆红西汉 A Fish from the South南边一只鱼Ancient Romance544k WordsCompleted [The whole family transmigrates + ordinary people + food and business + everyday family life + an alternate Western Han dynasty] The rating was just posted, so it’s a little low right now~ No contrived drama, and there’s a romantic pairing (the male lead barely appears, so feel free to ignore him; the heroine and her family are focused on building their business). A slice-of-life tale about ordinary people in a frontier town. The three members of the Lin family, village-feast chefs, transmigrate 2kReads8.4Score268Shelves
3. 3 巫 The Lich Brewery: A Management Journal 巫妖酿造工坊经营日志 Yingge Yeyuehua应歌夜月华Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Transmigration to another world + medieval Western fantasy and magic + food + running a business + a touch of mystery-solving. The love interest is Andre Lu Huntington, deputy commander of the kingdom's knights.) A food-and-mystery story with two parallel plotlines and a romance, so be warned! Jiang You, a master brewer from a family renowned for its traditional soy sauce, dies of heart disease. After death, she discovers she has arrived in another world and become a living skeleton... correcti 6.8kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
4. 4 穿 I Landed in a Fairytale World, and My Little Tavern Became a Hit 穿进童话世界，我的小酒馆爆火了 Graceful as a Swimming Fish婉若游鱼Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Healing + food + another world + fairy-tale characters appear + a little farming] While passing through a little fountain square in another world, Jiang Jiang came across an absolute beauty in a tattered dress. The beautiful older sister was leaning against the fountain, sobbing miserably. Jiang Jiang, a true lover of pretty faces, was heartbroken for her. With a grand wave of her hand, she brought the woman home and served her a steaming cup of milk tea and a sweet-and-sour berry tart. The 8.7kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
5. 5 您 You Have a New Thirst-Quenching Drink Order 您有新的渴了么订单 Braised Wings of the Great Peng大鹏炖翅Ancient Romance507k WordsCompleted [Character development + business simulation + infrastructure building + healing + no romance + a touch of court intrigue] They say the emperor was corrupt and incompetent, and Heaven sent down divine punishment. Not a drop of rain had fallen on this land for nearly twenty years, and countless people had died of thirst. Then, all of a sudden, a milk tea shop opened in the desert. In spring, there were all kinds of ice-cold fruit juices, along with seasonal drinks like cherry blossom and lychee b 13.4kReads9.4Score1.9kShelves

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   Management ❤️ Shop Opening ❤️ System ❤️ Female-oriented [Bookshelf Add 1] Small bridges, flowing water, and awning boats; teahouses and food stalls in the Jiangnan water towns. [Bookshelf Add 1] Western Han Dynasty Dunhuang snack shops; the top-ranked must-visit food stalls for caravans on the Silk Road. [Bookshelf Add 1] Lich-themed otherworldly food shops and criminal investigation. [Bookshelf Add 1] Fairytale world taverns; different fairytale character endings.

6. 6 我 I Run a Cafeteria in the Interstellar World to Feed My Whole Family 我靠在星际承包食堂养活全家 Qin Yuli秦鱼里Modern Romance343k WordsCompleted Setting: Interstellar. Social issue: The rat race. Theme: Food. Ingredient level: Moderate. This novel is complete, so feel free to enjoy! The Qin family’s parents were scammed into taking out a loan to run the unpopular cafeteria at Star University. The original owner was a lovesick fool, obsessed with chasing the Lu family’s young master, to whom she was betrothed as a child. She drank, smoked, and got a perm that made her hair stand on end. After her parents suddenly died, the person who woke 3.2kReads8.9Score295Shelves
7. 7 开 Twelve Buildings from the Start: Renting Them Out Shakes the Whole City 开局十二栋楼，我靠租房惊动全城 Do You Eat Tangerines?吃不吃橘Modern Romance250k WordsCompleted [A touch of a System + career-focused + wealthy big shot who never wants for money + no romance] [Just started getting rated, so the score will be low. Idealized community life! Idealized!] Jiang Yu inherited more than a dozen apartment buildings and became a landlady. On a whim, she visited one of the old neighborhoods and saw peeling walls, exposed wires, and crumbling roads... Meanwhile, in the System shop, soundproof walls, climate-controlled furnishings, air-purifying ventilation, and all k 4.3kReads8.9Score440Shelves
8. 8 科 Nobody Wants This High-Tech Food, So I Took It to the Past and Sold It Like Crazy 科技狠活没人吃，拿去古代卖疯了 Clear Light Shines on You Alone清光独映君Modern Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Feel-good power fantasy] [Transmigrating between two worlds] [Trading goods] [Building wealth] Just after Xia Yunshu escaped from the parasitic family of her good-for-nothing father, a loud clang heralded the arrival of her power to transmigrate between two worlds. Modern zongzi so sickeningly sweet that nobody wants them? She trades them for wild vegetables in the other world, then sells them for 388 yuan a pound outside a mansion! Even dogs turn their noses up at these starch sausages, but in 44.6kReads7.8Score3.7kShelves
9. 9 景 A Tourist Attraction Pays 1,800 a Month, and Its Ancient Employees Couldn't Be Happier 景区工资一千八，古人员工乐哈哈 Wild Flowers Fragrant野花香香Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [No Romance + System + Business Management + Food + Summoning Historical Figures + Lighthearted, No Brainpower Needed] Zhu Yang wakes up in a parallel world and finds herself bound to a scenic-area management System. The place is remote, the facilities are run-down, and the vast grounds of more than ten thousand mu have only two employees. Her vision goes black. “I quit!” The System panics. “Host, hear me out. I can summon NPCs from other worlds. You don’t have to pay their wages, and completing 4.2kReads8.5Score443Shelves
10. 10 带 Taking Pinduoduo to 40 带着拼夕夕在40 Willows by the Water水边柳杨Modern Romance562k WordsCompleted [Farming + Infrastructure Development + Beloved by All + War of Resistance Against Japan] She woke up in the 1940s, with a Pinduoduo System? An Yu thought for a second, then decided to come clean: “I’m from the future, and I have a golden finger.” Canned luncheon meat, work boots, motorized tricycles... Fertilizer, canned luncheon meat, military coats... If Pinduoduo sells it, you can get it here! This time, she absolutely wouldn’t let their forebears fight the Japanese invaders on empty stomach 77.4kReads9.0Score11.6kShelves
11. 11 深 A Widow’s Busy Night-Market Food Stall in Bianjing, and She Won’t Remarry 深夜食摊搞钱忙，汴京寡妇不嫁人 A Fish from the South南边一只鱼Ancient Romance502k WordsCompleted Reader’s guide: [ensemble cast + food business + heartwarming everyday life of ordinary people + no romance + fictional Northern Song setting] Wang Chunhua and Zhang Taonian were “mortal enemies” at the same company, bickering every day. After an accident, the two find themselves in Bianjing, the Northern Song capital, a thousand years in the past. And they become sisters-in-law in a family of street vendors at Zhouqiao Night Market!? The original family was devastated by swine fever. All the me 6.8kReads8.9Score1.2kShelves
12. 12 我 I Serve Manchu-Han Banquets at Kindergarten, Making the Whole City Drool 我在幼儿园做满汉全席，全市馋哭 Fairy Pond Koi仙池锦鲤Modern Romance581k WordsCompleted 24.5kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves
13. 13 开 Sold from the Start: From Street-Corner Pancake Seller to Regional Tycoon 开局被卖，从卖饼小贩到富甲一方 King Wen Was Right文王说得对Ancient Romance618k WordsCompleted [Food + business + imperial exams + farming + infrastructure + character growth + mutual first love] Food blogger Lu Yan died suddenly of heart disease and transmigrated into a novel about a heroine’s rise to success. The heroine in the book was the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, but her stepmother schemed to have her kidnapped and sold to a poor, remote village. An older man bought her and raised her as his own daughter. Before long, the heroine came across the fallen crown prince, 16kReads8.6Score1.2kShelves
14. 14 震 Shocking! The Entire Court Is Drooling Over My Cooking 震惊！满朝文武都被我馋哭了 Lemon with Sugar柠檬加糖Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Food + feel-good wish fulfillment + System + business + farming] Overnight, Shen Qing transmigrated into the only daughter of a restaurant owner. She thought she’d have a comfortable life, but the moment she opened her eyes, she found herself in hard mode. Her father had died in an accident, and with no sons in the family, her cousin had seized their vast estate. She and her mother were forced to live in a dilapidated house, while her scumbag fiancé broke his promise and went off to enjoy roman 32.3kReads7.9Score2.9kShelves

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    [Already hooked][Already hooked][Already hooked] I highly recommend a super good food novel!!! The female protagonist transmigrates to ancient times and starts by selling fried chicken, soup dumplings, beef noodles 🍜... Later, she will open a restaurant with all kinds of delicious food, including hot pot 🍲, sparkling water 🧃, and starch sausages. It's a pure female protagonist novel, and it looks like there will be no romantic pairing.

15. 15 御 The Entire Beast Taming Sect Transmigrates to the Modern Era and Gets Rich Running a Zoo 御兽宗全体穿现代，开动物园暴富 A River of Rippling Moonlight一江澜月Modern Romance707k WordsCompleted Also known as: The Entire Beast-Taming Sect Transmigrates to the Modern World and Gets Rich by Opening a Zoo! The sect patriarch dies while undergoing tribulation, and the entire Eastern Wilderness Domain is about to be taken over by demonic cultivators. What should they do? Of course, the best of the Thirty-Six Stratagems: run for it! Gu Xinghe has just become the new Holy Maiden when she binds to the Zoo-Building System. She immediately brings the entire Yun Cang Mountain Range, all the sect’s 10.7kReads8.2Score1.3kShelves

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    1. The female protagonist first transmigrates to the cultivation world and then brings the entire sect back to modern times to run a zoo. It's pretty good, with more female characters than male ones. 2. The female protagonist can summon people from other worlds to work for her, like historical figures, Sun Wukong, and otherworldly beings. It's finished; I've read it twice. 3. Also, the female protagonist transmigrates to ancient times and then brings back a demonic sect. There are many female characters; the demonic sect members are rescued by the female protagonist. Her left and right protectors are both women who are very protective of her. The demonic sect's strongest fighters are women, while the female protagonist has high lightness skills but low combat strength.

16. 16 团 One Second Before Our Annihilation, I Brought the Demon Cult to the Modern World 团灭前一秒，我带魔教回现代了 Cilantro Doesn't Eat Hot Pot香菜不吃火锅Modern Romance1.0M WordsCompleted (Comic adaptation and audiobook now available) [Female Lead] [No CP] [Business-Building] [Group Transmigration] [Super Satisfying] After serving as the Demonic Cult's leader for three years, Miao Yunyou was cornered by the righteous sects at the top of a mountain. Just as they were about to wipe them all out, she transmigrated back to the modern world. The good news: As compensation, the Heavenly Dao brought her mountain along, complete with the cult members who couldn't even read simplified cha 28.9kReads8.9Score3kShelves
17. 17 美 Gourmet: Taking Over the Bear’s Prison Canteen 美食：从承包毛熊监狱食堂开始 Quill Pen羽毛笔Urban1.3M WordsOngoing After a disastrous blind date, Tang Lei flees overnight, only to bind himself to a Chef God System that randomly assigns him a place to run: the cafeteria of a prison in a nation of tough fighters! Pork stewed with potatoes, red-braised pork, stuffed eight-treasure duck, sweet-and-sour ribs… Homestyle dishes! State-banquet cuisine! Every delicacy imaginable! Bring a taste of the culinary kingdom to Siberia, a barren wasteland of food! The vicious, unruly inmates: “Boss, do you need anyone to was 2.8kReads9.2Score309Shelves

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    Classic food articles, most of which have a systematic approach.

18. 18 我 I Sell Lunch Boxes, So Isn't It Only Natural for the School Cafeteria to Go Under? 我卖盒饭，学校食堂倒闭很正常吧 Super Crawfish超级小龙虾Urban576k WordsCompleted [Food + comedy + one heroine + transmigration + System] Lu Rong rents a small stall on a college campus to sell boxed meals, but business is so poor that he's on the verge of closing down. Luckily, at the crucial moment, he awakens a Super Gourmet System and instantly becomes a top chef. A simple plate of egg fried rice is enough to draw countless students and teachers to his stall. Then Lu Rong starts offering even more top-quality dishes, and the whole campus goes wild. Everyone joins the rank 1.3kReads8.6Score100Shelves
19. 19 开 I Opened a Restaurant, Then Got Called Up to Cook at the State Banquet 开餐饮店，被叫去担任国宴主厨 Round-Faced Fat Chicken圆脸肥鸡Urban819k WordsCompleted Synopsis: Food + System + doting dad + everyday life Shen Yi divorces Jiang Ruoyun, the CEO of a publicly listed company, and leaves with nothing but the custody of their daughter. To his surprise, he awakens the most powerful food System! Earn money, and you get to draw prizes! From then on, a Shen's Restaurant opens at No. 14 Fuhua Road. He wins god-tier bun-making skills in a prize draw! Soft and springy, bursting with savory flavor with every bite! A passing schoolgirl is so tempted that tea 2.5kReads8.7Score222Shelves
20. 20 美 Gourmet: My Little Shop Is Famous Around the World 美食：我的小店，名震全球 Sleeping Cat熟睡的猫Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Gourmet] [Opening a Restaurant] [No Female Lead] [System] [Perfect with a Meal] [Heartwarming] [Everyday Life] [A Different Menu Every Day] [Affordable Prices] [Ensemble Cast] Lou Yuanzhou has eaten so many ready-made meal packs that he actually gains a Chef God Gourmet System! As long as he opens a restaurant and completes all kinds of bizarre missions, he can earn rewards! Steaming hot wontons, springy zhajiang noodles, and the legendary lamb stew... all made by Lou Yuanzhou himself! Once his 9.6kReads9.0Score796Shelves
21. 21 开 From the Start, I Lost My Job: Selling Lunchboxes on the Way Home 开局就失业：返乡途中卖盒饭 Wind Quenches Flowers风熄花Urban3.6M WordsCompleted [A System golden finger, food, fast meals and lunch boxes, a leisurely slice-of-life pace, no romance in the main story. At readers’ request, the bonus chapters have a male lead. Male-oriented, male-oriented, male-oriented, said three times.] After working hard for three years, he’d just been made a full-time employee when the restaurant he worked at shut down. Bai Ye drove home in the secondhand car his boss had given him in lieu of pay, a heap of junk piled in the back. He never expected a S 33.8kReads9.1Score2.8kShelves
22. 22 厨 God of Cooking: A Little Restaurant from the Start, Making the Cultivation World Drool 厨神：开局小食肆，馋哭修真界 Qi Muzi栖木子Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted Gourmet, healing, no System, no romance, raising a daughter. After transmigrating from the apocalypse to the Cultivation Realm, Yang Feng runs a small eatery. Despite its humble size, the place is packed with big shots from every realm. The Demon Clan's holy maiden: “Waaah, mapo tofu is so delicious! I accidentally ate three more buckets of rice.” A sect leader: “The giant pork knuckle is the best! I can polish off ten in one go!” A celestial master: “I’ve read the signs, and today is a good day 3.8kReads8.7Score350Shelves
23. 23 让 I Told You to Set Up a Street Stall, Not Outside the City Management Bureau 让你摆地摊，没让你城管局门口摆 Watching the Moonlight看风月Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Gourmet]+ [System]+ [Wife- and Daughter-Doting Devotee]+ [Cozy Daily Life]+ [No Transmigration, No Rebirth] After turning thirty, Jiang Tian loses his job. His boss flees overseas with his sister-in-law and 80 million yuan. Comforted by his wife, Lin Wanqing, Jiang Tian decides to start a food stall. To his surprise, he binds himself to the [Supreme Street-Stall System]. A humble bowl of fried rice from a roadside stall leaves countless customers overwhelmed: "Boss Jiang's fried rice is the 18.3kReads8.6Score1.3kShelves
24. 24 混 Running a Restaurant in Ancient Times: All Tricks and No Shortcuts 混在古代搞餐饮，全是科技与狠活 Bookish Cat本本猫Historical1.3M WordsCompleted What do you do when you accidentally get a kitchen that can travel between ancient and modern times, but you can’t cook? No problem! We crooked cultivators run our restaurant with nothing but technology and additives! Open the fridge, take out some scissors, snip open the package, pour it into a bowl, and put it in the microwave. Defrost for thirty seconds, heat for three minutes. Ding! Your kung pao chicken is ready, honored guest. What? You want a bowl of chicken soup? Coming right up! I’ll ad 24.2kReads7.8Score3kShelves

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    One door connects two worlds, allowing people to travel through time and sell pre-made meals.

25. 25 山 My Mountain Villa Connects to Another World, and Ancient People Come to Work 山庄通异界古人来打工 Wang Buhui王不悔Modern Romance2.0M WordsOngoing After graduating from university, Jian Xingxia inherits her grandmother’s farm. But the farm lies deep in the mountains, overgrown with weeds and surrounded by leaky buildings. After pulling weeds until she’s questioning her life choices, Jian Xingxia wails, “Can’t someone come help me pull weeds and fix the roof?” The next second, a twelve-year-old girl from ancient times emerges from the mountains. “Pull weeds? Easy. Just give me the wild greens.” A skinny old man with a face that looks fifty- 106.6kReads9.0Score9.8kShelves

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    This novel isn't finished yet, but it's an incredibly interesting farming story! The protagonist runs a modern-day agritourism business, hiring people from ancient times as employees, specifically to take in those struggling individuals and gradually improve their lives. The ensemble cast is exceptionally well-developed, and the stories of each minor character are very touching. Although there are many unresolved plot points, it gets more and more addictive the more you read. I've already joined the ranks of those who follow the updates daily.

26. 26 魔 The Demon-Spawn Heiress Becomes Principal and Turns the Whole School Upside Down 魔丸千金当校长，创翻全校 Lucky Little Kui福气小葵Modern Romance823k WordsOngoing (Satisfying read + silly comedy + bringing down the school + darling of all, devilish heroine + family affection) The wealthy Yu family holds a competition among its seven children to choose an heir. Each must turn around a failing business owned by the Yu Group. In her previous life, Yu Xiaxing and her siblings schemed and sabotaged one another for the family fortune, and she ultimately won. But before she could enjoy her victory, the real heiress returned. It turned out she was only an imposto 231.9kReads9.4Score37.7kShelves

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    Business-related articles

27. 27 从 After Returning from the Immortal Realm, I Made a Fortune Through Farming 从仙界穿回来后我靠种田发家致富 Riding a Donkey and Lighting a Lamp骑驴点灯Modern Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [No spatial dimension, no System, a slight golden finger, spirit-spring farming, reclaiming the hills behind the house, cozy food and everyday life. There is a couple, but the male lead doesn't get much screen time. Big shots gradually enter the story later.] A spirit jade brought back from the immortal realm changed Xu Xia's life as an overworked office drone. When the jade dew flows, gold and silver follow. She'd finally been reborn. Who would be a workhorse now? Only a fool! Xu Xia immedi 31kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves
28. 28 东 Reviving the Northeast, Giving Millions of Workers Maxed-Out Buffs 东北振兴，千万员工BUFF拉满 New Autumn Thirteen新秋十三Urban784k WordsOngoing [Reviving Northeast China's Industry] + [Real Industry Reigns Supreme] + [A Multitude of Cross-Sector Businesses] + [Infrastructure Development] + [Ten Million Employees] + [Global Expansion] He awoke in a new era. Back in Northeast China in 1995. State-owned enterprises were struggling, factories were run-down, and laid-off workers were everywhere. The once-glorious industrial heartland of the Northeast was steadily fading. “System?” “Start factories and companies, hire employees...” “Eac 212.7kReads9.0Score17.6kShelves

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    I'm not sure if this counts? A system + management game? The protagonist's goal is to help laid-off workers avoid losing their jobs. It's very good. It's a male-oriented novel, but female-oriented as well. Because the protagonist is purely focused on his career, there's no romance at all.

29. 29 在 I Made a Chinese Restaurant a Huge Hit in the Apocalypse of Another World 在异世界末世经营中华餐厅爆火 Ice Cola Drink Substitute冰可乐代喝Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.6M WordsCompleted [Apocalypse] [Business Management] [System] [Gourmet Food] [Farming] [No CP, Ensemble Cast] After Ling Jing died, she became bound to a business management System and was randomly dropped into an apocalyptic world where plants and animals had mutated. The System asked her to name her restaurant. After thinking for a moment, she typed: Chinese Restaurant. In this mutated apocalypse, every plant and animal had become an enemy. When starving humans on the brink of death caught the scent of roaste 96kReads9.4Score14kShelves

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    These are two different types of infrastructure management novels, but both have a grand world view!

30. 30 求 Survival Game: I Own a Lake Island 求生游戏：我有一座湖心岛 Just One Bowl of Winter Melon, Corn, and Pork Rib Soup恰一口冬瓜玉米排骨汤Fantastical Romance728k WordsOngoing [Strong Female Lead] [No Romance] [Infrastructure Building] [Farming] [Cute Pets] [The heroine never falls behind other survivors and eventually reaches the top] While conducting field research in the mountains with her advisor, she is caught up in the global event that drags everyone into a survival world. There's no time to mourn the modern life she's lost. Jiang Lanyue zips up her sturdy shell jacket and decides to start by finding the perfect spot to place a shelter for herself. No one k 76.5kReads9.3Score8.6kShelves
31. 31 就 You Call This a 10A Tourist Attraction? 就你这景区是10A啊 Lucky Little Pig小猪旺财Urban1.9M WordsCompleted [Infrastructure] [Building Tourist Attractions] [No Heroine] Xu Jing inherited a scenic area in a barren mountain range. You say it's so rundown that nobody visits? Then he'll turn it into a Level 10A attraction! A sacred mountain teeming with life, ruins beneath the lake, a place of pilgrimage... Countless people poured into this obscure little city and stared in bewilderment at the floating island overhead... You call this just a tourist attraction? 94.6kReads9.4Score8.9kShelves

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    NB Klass, pretty cool, looks great, highly recommended.

32. 32 继 I Inherited a Little Tavern, and the First Order Is a Feast at Hongmen! 继承小酒楼，首单竟是鸿门宴！ Carrying the North Southward载北以南Urban863k WordsOngoing [The rating just opened and will rise later] [Food + Comfort Reads + Historical Adventures + Slice of Life + Healing] Ying He suddenly learns that his father left him two million in debt, and the ancestral restaurant he inherited is about to be lost. Luckily, the restaurant comes with a System that lets him transmigrate into the past to find recipes. He thought it would be a sure thing, but his first stop was the Feast at Hongmen, where he had to cook for Liu Bang and Xiang Yu. After finally win 563Reads8.9Score—Shelves

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    All three are great! 1. It summons ancient people to run a restaurant, offering retro, traditional cuisine and witnessing history without interfering with it; 2. It involves searching for and creating delicious food, with a touch of fantasy; 3. The protagonist runs a travel agency to attract customers, but he's a bit cheeky and doesn't care about the customers' lives—it's incredibly funny! [Admiring]

33. 33 全 A World of the Eerie, Where Every Guest Is a Big Shot 全球诡异，我的客人全是大佬 Goodnight Choc Ice晚安巧乐兹Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted This is an age of supernatural resurgence, when ghosts roam the night. The Special Affairs Department is overwhelmed, and ghost tamers are run off their feet. Yet in a corner of the old district, a little restaurant called Gu's has become the most unbelievable haven between the living and the dead. Its rules are strange: 1. The food is outrageously expensive, but only the living have to pay. 2. When ghost customers come calling, they pay with their deepest obsessions. 3. No matter who you are, y 5kReads8.6Score550Shelves
34. 34 直 Adventure Livestream: From the Start, I Feed a Giant Snake with a Client 直播冒险，开局拿客户投喂巨蛇 Rain in the Southern Alley, Snow in the Northern City南巷雨北城雪Urban2.0M WordsOngoing [Animated series now underway] After Fang Jiu activates the “Gold Medal Tour Guide System,” the face of tourism around the world changes. His livestream becomes the boundary between reality and fantasy. In the Amazon rainforest, he takes his clients on a “life-or-death rafting trip,” livestreaming from atop a forty-meter giant snake’s head; Beneath the pyramids of Egypt, he digs through thousand-year-old stone walls with his bare hands and negotiates a cut of the profits with a resurrected phara 15.1kReads7.0Score1.3kShelves
35. 35 穿 A Few Things About Becoming the Head of a Fallen Clan 穿成破落家主的二三事 Moonlight on Snow月照雪Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted The moment he opened his eyes, he found himself in a livestock shed at the place of exile. He was Xie Yuanlang, the eldest son of the Xie family, who had just laughed himself to death on the spot when the imperial pardon arrived! The pardon demanded ten taels as a token of filial respect, while their own clansmen treated them like the plague. Looking at the desperate faces of the old and young in the house, Xie Yuanlang thought: Being the head of this family is too hard! Fortunately, the Aristoc 6kReads7.5Score673Shelves

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    This kind is highly recommended!

36. 36 那 The Scenic Spots He Takes People To Are Archaeological Sites 那货带去的景区能考古 The One Who Holds the Brush执笔之人Urban1.5M WordsCompleted [Published and available to buy everywhere online, published under the title A Planar Travel Agency] [Changing history's regrets + patriotic spirit] Jiang Ye inherits a travel agency on the verge of bankruptcy and becomes a tour guide. But the attractions he takes his tourists to are anything but ordinary. Other guides take people to scenic, officially rated 4A and 5A attractions. The places Jiang Ye visits are either the Qin Dynasty two thousand years ago, the Great Ming Dynasty five hundred ye 61.4kReads9.0Score7.4kShelves

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    A complete system for operating a store. However, the specific type of store isn't necessarily what it sounds like, haha. 1. Travel Agency; 2. Magic Shop (but not a very serious business). [Reference] 3. I read one book and then forgot the rest; I only remember it being pretty good. The last one was good at the beginning but got a bit weak later. Overall, they were all good reads.

37. 37 在 Opening a Magic Shop in Marvel 在漫威开家魔法店 A Little Flower Bud一颗小花芽Female-Channel Fanfiction678k WordsOngoing [No romance, focused on friendship and family, comedy, mostly everyday life] Su Na thought getting a second life in the Harry Potter world was already a rare stroke of luck. But when she opens her eyes again, she discovers she's in an infinite-flow world?! Her companions: Tom, Jerry, Dobby, and the Chocolate Frog (Dick). Her companions in the Harry Potter world: Snape, Theodore, Professor McGonagall, and Tara. Other Harry Potter characters and characters from the Tom and Jerry world will appear 2.4kReads8.3Score290Shelves
38. 38 不 Western Crossover: The Anything-But-Ordinary Odd Jobs Shop 【综英美】不正经的万事屋 Ran Chu Qing染初晴Male-Channel Fanfiction601k WordsCompleted They say that in the great city of New York, there’s a shop that can handle any request. When you’re at your wits’ end, it will appear before you. Walk inside, write your request and the price you’re willing to pay on the parchment in the shop, and leave an address where you can be contacted. If the shopkeeper is willing to accept your commission, then... 1. Write down your request. 2. Write down the payment you’re willing to offer. 3. Write down your name and address. 4. Payment accepted in US 3.1kReads9.1Score332Shelves
39. 39 神 The God-Tier System's Shop Across All Worlds 神级系统万界大店长 Shao Shu Jiuhui少书九回Eastern Fantasy5.1M WordsCompleted [An original story, not a world-hopping tale] Legend has it that in a corner of the continent, there is a little shop. It sells chewing gum that gives you an endless supply of strength, and soda that can have you leaping around in an instant, even if you were on your last breath. The place is packed with divine beasts and overflowing with magical treasures. There is no product you can’t find there, only things you haven’t thought of yet. Countless powerful figures flock to the shop, and influent 2kReads8.3Score216Shelves
40. 40 异 Another World Amusement Park: This Place Is Cursed 异界游乐园，这个游乐园有毒 The Lamb Strikes Back反击的羔羊Eastern Fantasy223k WordsCompleted [Invincible Park Manager + No Female Lead + System + Funny, Lighthearted Humor + Running a Business] On the Tianshui Continent, there is an amusement park. Its roller coasters drive countless body cultivators wild, its maze fascinates countless formation masters, and its spirit beast park amazes countless beast tamers... Tianshui Amusement Park: a paradise for mortals, a sacred place for cultivators. 21Reads6.6Score—Shelves
41. 41 位 Plane System: I'm a Landlord in Another World 位面系统：我在异界当地主 No Skipping Today今天不咕Ancient Romance509k WordsCompleted Synopsis: [Multiverse System + Farming + Infrastructure Building + Management Sim + Gourmet Food + Invincible Heroine] This story has a couple, it is not a no-romance story! It is not a no-romance story! The male lead officially appears in the second world, but the heroine is the strongest throughout. The main plot is about making money, with a little romance on the side. Blurb: An Ruoning transmigrates and gets an invincible System, which supposedly makes her stronger as long as she spends mo 464Reads8.6Score102Shelves
42. 42 长 Changhong Funeral Services, One-Stop from Start to Finish 长虹殡葬一条龙 The Unrivaled Killer不可一世的杀手Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Zhang Fan transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes the owner of a funeral home. One day, while scrolling through short videos, he comes across a martial arts influencer who makes a spectacle of challenging fighting gyms. The influencer stands arrogantly outside a gym, boasting that he’ll go in and knock out the owner’s front teeth. Just then, the Funeral System activates. “After 16 malicious publicity stunts challenging gyms, the chance of getting beaten to a pulp next time is 100%! The cha 14.9kReads8.6Score1.5kShelves
43. 43 位 Quick Transmigration Across Planes: I Own a Little General Store 位面快穿，我有一间小杂货店 Pipi Loves Tangerines爱吃橘子的皮皮Modern Romance4.1M WordsOngoing [No romance + no male lead + general store + ensemble cast + doing business in various novel worlds, including storylines where the heroine gets help] [Main characters: Su Ling + a calico cat] After waking up one day, Su Ling finds that her general store has bonded with a planar trade System, and she transmigrates into a book. First book world: a lucky heroine in a story set during the era of rationing. A general store suddenly appears on the hill behind Dawang Village. It has more goods tha 52.7kReads9.3Score4.7kShelves

    Reader note

    The first one is a quick transmigration novel with a single female protagonist. The main character and the system open shops in various worlds and become top sellers, which is very interesting. The rest are basically novels where the protagonist has a system and then opens a shop or sets up a food stall.

44. 44 我 I Run a Food Truck in a World of Monsters 我在怪物世界开餐车 Cute Bunny Meow萌兔喵Sci-Fi & Apocalypse168k WordsOngoing [No heroine, no romantic entanglements] [Gourmet] [Otherworld] [Food truck] [Monsters] [Leveling] Jiang Yue was just an office drone, so he never expected to be bound to a Divine Chef System. Before he could show off his skills and become the story’s main character, a thunderous game descended. The whole world was dragged into a monster realm, where everyone had to survive on the road. Wait... What happened to the golden finger he’d just gotten? As it turned out, he became the game’s only food v 109Reads6.3Score145Shelves
45. 45 小 The Alleyway Cooking God: Starting with S-Rank Turnip Cake 小巷厨神，从S级萝卜糕开始 Loves Red Pomelo Tea爱喝红柚茶Urban903k WordsOngoing (Urban setting + food + no female lead + everyday life + slow burn. Not a street-stall story: they open a restaurant.) In a bustling city, an old neighborhood left untouched by redevelopment for one reason or another sits on an aging street. In this urban village, surrounded by the central business district, a young culinary genius makes his home. After his parents die in a car accident, Fang You resolutely drops out of school and returns home to take over the breakfast shop they ran for over tw 21.2kReads7.2Score2.2kShelves
46. 46 成 Growth-Type Chef God: My Proficiency Rises Every Day 成长系厨神：我的熟练度每日上涨 Leg-Day Slacker练腿摸鱼仔Urban1.5M WordsOngoing [Food] [System] [Everyday Life] [Leveling Up] [No Female Lead] [Lighthearted] (The animated series is now out, and the print edition has been signed. Feel free to dive in!) Song Yan was tricked into coming home by his father to inherit the breakfast shop, but unexpectedly activated the God of Cooking System. [Host]: Song Yan Seasoning (Beginner): 165/1000 (Not enough to kill anyone) …Collapsed… Knife Skills (Beginner): 0/1000 (You should worry more about cutting your hand than cutting vegetables 152.7kReads8.7Score15.4kShelves
47. 47 系 After the System Woke Up, I Started Selling Snacks at My Stall! 系统苏醒后，我摆摊卖上小吃了！ Shengsheng Shushu生生疏Urban879k WordsOngoing [System + local specialties from all over + easygoing comfort read + no heroine] The System wakes up after nearly a year of slumber. The good news: a galactic undocumented immigrant has become a street-food cook and now has an identity. The bad news: after the System spent the Host’s money and went through a whole series of operations, Lin Su is now over 280,000 yuan in debt. Fortunately, the System delivers. It knows exactly what our ancestors would choose, and serves up hulutou, fish-shaped do 8.3kReads8.7Score1.2kShelves
48. 48 柯 Detective Conan: Running a Convenience Store in Beika 柯南：在米花当便利店老板 Yun Ang Frog囩昂蛙Anime Fanfiction1.2M WordsCompleted [No CP + Misinterpretation Comedy + Passerby Protagonist + System + Forum Posts + Daily Life] This is actually a lighthearted slice-of-life story, with plenty of everyday moments, an ensemble cast, and a cozy feel. It's aimed at a female audience, with no complicated, brain-teasing plotlines. The forum chapters are longer! The writing is a little rough and meandering at first, but it settles down later! An Yi is an ordinary person. He thought so both during his life as an overworked office dron 10.8kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
49. 49 游 Game Development: My Online Dating Partner Is Actually a Hit Movie Star 游戏制作：网恋对象竟是当红影后 Coconut Latte生椰啦铁Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Game Development] [One Female Lead] [Sweet Romance] [Showbiz] Chi Wen: “Our game this time does have some horror elements, but…” Players: “Not buying it! We’re never touching one of your horror games again!” Chi Wen: “Oh? But you can farm and build things in it.” Players: “Okay, sold.” With a System, Chi Wen unexpectedly becomes the project manager of a hollowed-out game company. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he uses the System to rise to the throne of the King of Chinese Gaming. Along t 31.1kReads9.5Score3.4kShelves

    Reader note

    Three classic time-travel + game novels; the first two start with a system, while the third relies purely on memory for development.

50. 50 开 Making Sheep a Sheep from the Start, Breaking Players Worldwide 开局制作羊了个羊，全球玩家破防 Stay Disciplined坚持自律Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Strongly recommended by the editor + game design + livestreaming + everyday life] [Sheep a Sheep only earns the protagonist his first pot of gold; it has nothing to do with the later plot] Zhao Kai transmigrates to a parallel world and vows to build his own gaming empire. He obtains the “Rage-Inducing Game System.” As long as he frustrates players, he earns rewards. Zhao Kai says, “I just want to make good games. The System is the one forcing me to do this.” His first game is Sheep a Sheep. Pla 11.2kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves

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